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"They are on their way." One guardian said, having witnessed Hal's and Bens departure from the watchtower. "How will we meet him without his watch scanning us?" One asked. They had all seen him turn into his version of Thor, a supposed god and that was not something to overlook.
"We have till before they arrive to figure that out." One guardian responded before they all floated away in a straight line.
Over the ocean, an angelic figure was gliding through the air at high speed. Wonderwoman took this chance to go home. Back to her home, back to her mother, her sisters. She had really missed them. She could also take this time to seek advice from her mother and also inform them of the ongoing events. In a distance, she could see the magical barrier separating Themyscira from the world of man…she headed straight for it.
Batman had retired back to the Batcave where he was seated in front of his huge super computer going through all the reports from the battle of doomsday. He had tapped into every news channel database and duplicated every footage they had recorded that included most of the government and private organizations. According to the videos he compiled, doomsday was too powerful, it could easily go toe to toe with superman, Thor and Ben. A weapon that powerful was something of great concern to him. He had to find out where the creature originated from or if it was indeed sent to earth by Darkseid, if so, they need to prepare for whatever he was planning.
After a few hours of reviewing the footages, he was about to call it quits when something caught his attention. After the fight ended his keen eyesight caught a dark figure moving in one of the buildings shadow. He watched a group of hooded figures in black suits skewering the battle field collecting things in the downpour. His detective skills figured they were collecting DNA samples. He had to identify, then track them and retrieve the samples. Having clones of the donors running around following orders blindly could be more dangerous than any of Darkseids invasion plan.
Thor, Hawkeye, Black widow and Iron man were in the cafeteria grabbing a bite to eat. From all the tension due to doomsday, most of them had not eaten anything in a couple of hours.
"So…you and the bat guy huh?" Iron man couldn't help himself much to Blackwidows dismay. "What can I say, I like mystery." She attempted to shrug off Iron man.
Hawkeye was having a good time…at their expense. He knew where this conversation would eventually lead to and decided to spice it up, after all, he was bored.
"Careful now…we wouldn't want another bump now, would we?" He smirked at Black widows facials clearly displaying betrayal but quickly turned into a smirk directed at Thor. "Oh don't worry about that…" she paused for dramatic effect, "I have a feeling she wouldn't mind since she's totally smitten about something or someone.."
Thor wasn't paying much attention to their conversation, he had a huge empty stomach to fill and a lot to think about. After a couple of bites in, his senses picked up all eyes staring at him and he looked up at them. "What?" He asked curiously since he did not really mind if anyone disapproved of his methods of eating.
"I knew there was something going on there…I knew it!" Tony bellowed happily while raising a high five to Thor who looked more confused than ever.
"What are you talking about Stark.?" Thor asked looking at his other chuckling colleagues.
"You and the warrior princess." Tony answered him. If there was something Tony was good at was agitating people and making them be as uncomfortable as possible.
"What about Diana?" Thor asked again. "Are you fucking her?" Tony asked with a grin on his face although his faceplate hindered anyone from seeing it but his voice betrayed his tone.
Thor spat out everything he was chewing to his side, he was certainly not ready for that question. "Noooo… why would I?.. I mean… I haven't. That is no way to speak about royalty." Thor fumbled and reproached him.
"I was just asking what everyone is too chickened out to ask." Tony defended himself.
"That is ludicrous! Why would anyone think of that? And don't speak of that anymore or I would not defend you from her wrath" Thor said. Princess Diana was a very respectable warrior princess that his father usually told tales about when he was just but a boy. He would not want her reputation to be soiled by Tony's wild theories.
"Okay okay… Not yet.." Tony yielded much to Thors satisfaction who carried on eating but his mind racing with a thousand and one thoughts.
The rest of the avengers smirked at Tony's hidden meaning of "not yet" which Thor did not pick up on. He was as ancient as the oldest historic site in the USA.
Back in the avengers cave Banner was still on monitor duty dozing off time to time from exhaustion. He took this time alone to do extensive research on this earth. He hacked every medical research center he could get access on and compared notes on their development and breakthroughs in the medical sector as well as technological wise. Natasha had sent to him the particulars of the conference meeting via email that Tony had solely designed using Googles mail version for the avengers, it was a good thing it also worked in this universe since they also had Google.
The past 24hrs was a very hectic one, from doomsday attacking earth to him wanting to help but was ordered not to. The destruction was way more than the hulk could cause in a single rampage of his own when not too angry. Soon, he would be relieved of duty and head back to the watchtower…he kind of missed it and being in the cave alone was hela boring.
WARNING! INTRUDER ALERT! WARNING! INTRUDER ALERT! Jarvis alarms went off startling Banner from his short nap. "What now!?" He asked exasperated. "It appears we have uninvited guests Mr. Banner. Do not worry yourself, the automatic defenses will intervene when they reach the marked zone, and I have informed Mr. Stark of our current predicament." Jarvis explained to Banner who nodded in understanding at the CCTV footages Jarvis displayed for him of the intruders appearing to search around a couple of meters from the start of their hide outs property.